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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 13, 2005 19:05:45 GMT
I'm really looking forward to this, though after the TV movie disappointment, am trying not to get too excited in case it disappoints. It always makes me laugh though when the press go on about Daleks actually being able to go upstairs. They already can! They should do their research I think.
Patsy
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Post by sootycat on Mar 16, 2005 15:55:39 GMT
Having just seen a clip of it ( and got over seeing Dr Who wearing "Doc Martyns"  it looked good. Of course now, the special effects are going to be state of the art |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 16, 2005 17:34:30 GMT
Despite Russell T Davies's best efforts to keep it a surprise, there's a pic of the new console room in the latest SFX magazine. I hate it! The console looks like a mix of rust and green globs. I'm hoping it looks better on screen than in the photo.
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 16, 2005 21:22:39 GMT
I saw the trailer tonight before 9pm and am so excited. It looks great and thankfully the console room does look better from a distance than that photo. Not too sure about the CGI though. I like it when it doesn't look obviously fake effects. But some of that does. Ahh, 10 days and we'll have seen the first episode. ;D
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 19, 2005 13:20:29 GMT
UK Gold are having a DW Day next week. BBC1 has a special at 5.25pm before Strictly Come Dancing apparently. Then there's the BBC3 specials at 7.45pm after the eps. Saw a discussion by chance last night on that Newsnight Review. Opening titles look great. Some Americian woman was critical, saying it looked cheap, blah, blah. She probably prefers things with special effects and no story. Like the letter on Teletext today saying would kids be enthralled by a sonic screwdriver. YES! They've obviously never been to a convention where there's loads of kids.
BBC Online has a countdown clock. "Coming soon to BBC1" the trailers go. Did we ever think we'd hear those words again?
A week to go!!!!!!! ;D
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 21, 2005 0:10:18 GMT
Yes. Especially these new eviler Daleks. As long as they've kept what made it different to the average sci-fi show, then it should be a success. Not long now... I'm like a kid here all excited. Though more for BBC3 than BBC1. I want to see if me and my friend appear in any of the filmed bits at the convention last November. But it looks like we'll have to wait until part 12 for that.  Patsy |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 21, 2005 18:30:38 GMT
They usually did but they were too much talk and not enough action so the Doctor always won. ;D Maybe they'll actually exterminate on sight for once.
Patsy
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Post by sootycat on Mar 22, 2005 15:41:46 GMT
I have just read an interview with Christopher Eccleston, and he says he doesn't know if he will commit to another series. Wonderful  Still, he can always be re-generated, can't he. |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 22, 2005 18:20:17 GMT
Yeah. The 10th Doctor. The Beeb certainly like using up his regenerations, don't they?
Patsy
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Post by sootycat on Mar 25, 2005 12:49:02 GMT
Its a great way to get rid of an actor who is getting too precious, swap heads. ;D
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 25, 2005 13:46:24 GMT
LOL! Corrie does it all the time!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Mar 25, 2005 16:20:58 GMT
Yes Corrie do have a habit of doing that.
Ive heard a lot about the new Dr Who so im going to watch and see if I like it tommorow.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 25, 2005 18:08:40 GMT
I'm giving it a few weeks before making up my mind. First eps are usually pretty crap because they're setting the scene. The original first ep was actually very good but there were no monsters or whatever. Just the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara. The 3 after that were pretty crap. This looks like trying to emulate that in some way. If it hadn't been for the Daleks, there wouldn't be a series starting tomorrow. So a squillion gratitudes to Verity Lambert there. ;D I can't wait to see these new Daleks. Never liked the Cushing ones. Look more like something you could grab hold of, their flashing lights. Never liked the Cushing films either. The TV stories may be twice as long but they're better.
Don't forget to watch BBC3 on the 11th June to see (hopefully) little me!!!!!! And, unlike Nick, you DO know what I look like. LOL! ;D
24 hours and 50 mins to go - wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Mar 25, 2005 18:55:54 GMT
I'm giving it a few weeks before making up my mind. First eps are usually pretty crap because they're setting the scene. The original first ep was actually very good but there were no monsters or whatever. Just the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara. The 3 after that were pretty crap. This looks like trying to emulate that in some way. If it hadn't been for the Daleks, there wouldn't be a series starting tomorrow. So a squillion gratitudes to Verity Lambert there. ;D I can't wait to see these new Daleks. Never liked the Cushing ones. Look more like something you could grab hold of, their flashing lights. Never liked the Cushing films either. The TV stories may be twice as long but they're better. Don't forget to watch BBC3 on the 11th June to see (hopefully) little me!!!!!! And, unlike Nick, you DO know what I look like. LOL! ;D 24 hours and 50 mins to go - wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Patsy Well I didnt watch the original Dr Who as it ended in what 1989? So id have been 8 at the time, although I do remember Corrie from as early as 86 but never saw Dr Who. Maybe I will be a new fan! Oh yes I know what you look like Pat - I like the photo of you with Brian Capron. |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 25, 2005 21:17:10 GMT
I gave up originally when Peter Davison took over until Uk Gold started in 1992, but did watch Remembrance of the Daleks in 1988. I taped Corrie instead whereas now I'd tape the shorter programme. LOL! I loved Remembrance. It's one of my favourite stories. My dad wants one of those Special Weapons Daleks, but no one's made a toy one. I don't like them. Take all the fun out of exterminating if you've got something like a tank to blow things away in seconds. I wonder what new toys they'll bring out? I want a sonic screwdriver. Got one but it's aluminium and does nothing. I want one with a light and sound effects because I'm such a big kid. You have no idea how excited I got when I got my talking Daleks. ;D I watched from about t he age of 3. I remembered the Unit building going into the black hole when I saw The Three Doctors on UK Gold in 93. But always remembered Jon Pertwee regenerating into Tom Baker when I was 4. I sat on the floor crying my eyes out. I didn't understand but it gave me a fear of spiders after that. Not ickle ones, but great fat hairy black ones because they could jump on your back and take you over! Mary Whitehouse got something right for once! LOL!
Yes, I don't look too bad with Brian Capron apart from a scratch on my chin little Barbara gave me a few days before.
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 26, 2005 20:36:48 GMT
Well, that's that over. It's very different. Very fast-paced and not what we're used to. Though there's a lot that could have done with being over so fast! LOL! There were some very funny moments. The 9th Doctor reminds me of Tom Baker's with the smile and some of the lines. I could imagine Tom saying them with a toothy grin. The Autons were a bit crap. Certainly a lot of overacting there, especially when they 'died'. I preferred it when they just collapsed with no death throes. I was interrupted watching Dr Who Confidential by my Scottish friend who surprisingly hasn't slagged it off, but give him time. LOL! He was disappointed the action with the Autons was over in a few minutes and I tend to agree. They weren't as menacing as they were in Spearhead From Space and Terror of the Autons. They certainly would just shoot rather than hover around a would-be victim like they did with Rose's mum. So that was a bit disappointing. Will this series be as fondly remembered as the original? Hard to say. Maybe.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Mar 26, 2005 21:07:55 GMT
Have watched it, I thought it was very good, different to anything ive watched before. I would definately watch again.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 26, 2005 21:24:00 GMT
I suppose I, like a lot of people, are used to be being longer with more action and character and story development per story. Though granted some was full of padding. I can't wait to see the Daleks though. I LOVE them. While waiting between the preview programme and ep 1 I turned over to watch Dragonfire on UK Gold. Still think it should have been Survival but Dragonfire's not bad for a Mel story. I hope this new story has the Doctor using his wits like they used to to defeat things (or try and find a way to before blowing everything up! LOL!) and it's not just explosions.
Patsy
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Post by pearly queen on Mar 26, 2005 21:54:34 GMT
I watched it tonight with my 7 year old and we both really enjoyed it. Loved the comedy : the killer plastic arm, the kidnapping wheelie bin and the Doctor saying 'No' bluntly to Rose's mum's flirting.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 26, 2005 22:31:39 GMT
Not forgetting the Doctor telling Rose about looking for a giant round thing that's the transmitter and took a while before he twigged it was the London Eye. LOL!
I was just checking the convention footage on DW Confidential and I'm there! Me and my mate Paul in the queue for Katy Manning's autograph. That was a surprise. She had arguments with that Dalek on the right which held up the queue. LOL!
Patsy
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Post by sootycat on Mar 27, 2005 12:31:56 GMT
Loved the bit when he was explaining to Rose why he had a northern accent. ;D
I think it will get scarier as time goes by, after all, you can't have Doctor Who without a few ( Behind the settee ) moments ;D
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 27, 2005 14:00:23 GMT
I must be one of the few people never to have watched behind the sofa. Always either in my mum's chair or on the floor in front of the TV for everything. Though I do cover my eyes at those maggots. Can't bear them. Christopher Eccleston did say it does start off a bit light and then gets scarier. I want the Daleks. That bit they showed on BBC3 last night (or was it BBC1?) looks fab.
Patsy
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Post by sootycat on Mar 30, 2005 11:46:11 GMT
Good news for Canadian and New Zealand viewers. The series has been sold to them.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 30, 2005 16:10:27 GMT
Because they're meanies, SW. I was hoping the Dr Who Confidential would be on after the repeat but nope. Italy I read too, sooty. Canada are getting it on soon apparently but no idea about the BBC3 stuff. Patsy |
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Mar 30, 2005 17:41:52 GMT
From Media Guardian:
Second Doctor Who series already in pipeline
Jason Deans, broadcasting editor
Wednesday March 30, 2005
The BBC has wasted no time in commissioning a Christmas special and second series of its Doctor Who revival, less than a week after the time traveller returned to BBC1 after an absence of 16 years with nearly 10 million viewers.
However, the BBC head of drama commissioning, Jane Tranter, was unable to confirm whether Christopher Eccleston, the ninth doctor, or Billie Piper, who plays his sidekick, would be returning - opening up the possibility that the man with the sonic screwdriver might have to undergo yet another regeneration within a year.
Ms Tranter said she had commissioned the Christmas special and a second series of Doctor Who yesterday - just three days after the sci-fi show began its new 13-part run on BBC1 with 9.9 million viewers, beating off stiff opposition from Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
"So now we've got to start talking to Billie and Chris about what they want to do. I want to make Doctor Who again, but there is a mischievous element to it, in that you can keep regenerating [the Doctor]," she added.
"I think Chris is fantastic as Doctor Who. But we've still got another 12 episodes to go. People will have to wait and see what happens," Ms Tranter said, speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch today.
She added that Eccleston and Piper's contracts included options to do more series, which is standard practice in returning TV dramas.
But Ms Tranter indicated that it was not yet certain that the pair, who have been generally well received by viewers, critics and die-hard fans of Doctor Who, would continue to be part of the show after the current series.
The lead writer on the new Doctor Who series, Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies, will be writing the Christmas special, which will be broadcast towards the end of this year.
Ms Tranter revealed that Doctor Who was "probably the riskiest thing I've ever commissioned", because of the cost and the commitment to a 13-episode series, adding that she was shocked at how popular the first episode had proved on Saturday night.
"In all honesty I had got myself into proverbial steel jacket as far as Doctor Who was concerned. I told myself I'd be completely and utterly thrilled if it got 6.5 million, but there was a little voice inside whispering '4.5 million'," she confessed.
She said that Barb's AI index, the audience research measure of how much viewers enjoyed a show, had scored 81 out of 100 for Doctor Who - above the average for the corporation's dramas, which is 78.
Ms Tranter added that the BBC had always envisaged that the Doctor Who revival would be scheduled early on Saturday evening, even though this put it head to head with Saturday Night Takeaway, one of ITV1's biggest entertainment hits.
"We wanted it to be early Saturday evening, because that had been the slot before, and Russell [T Davies] had written it with that time in mind. There's something there for every adult to chew on, but also something for children. If you played it at a different time, it's just not going to work," she added.
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This is very good news but I'm wary about her regeneration remark. They've already wasted the 8th Doctor and we know Colin was pushed out.
Patsy
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it looked good.
Still, he can always be re-generated, can't he.
